Overview

You work as an information security specialist for a large financial company and your Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has asked you to investigate recent online attacks that have occurred against certain individuals within your organization. The CISO wants to ensure that the company is well protected against these types of attacks. Look into victims, perpetrators, and how to mitigate risk.

Assess the difficulties faced by law enforcement in detecting, investigating, and prosecuting cases of cyberstalking and cyber exploitation.

Analyze three Supreme Court cases that have been decided concerning federal efforts to target cybercriminals and protect children online.

Describe two groups affected by cyber exploitation, bullying, stalking, and obscenity.

Describe the characteristics of perpetrators of Internet cyberstalking and exploitation

Provide three sources to support your writing in addition to the textbook. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and valid. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

Evaluate how the Internet is used for cybercrime, cyberstalking, and other abusive behaviors.

CASE FACTS:

• A female employee, sales representative, has alleged that another employee, Robert, also a sales representative, has harassed her.
• This employee showed the Human Resources Department 3 messages that were sent to her.
• She had been contacted on her private email, by Robert, who became increasingly aggressive and eventually showed up in a coffee shop while she was with a friend.

YOUR JOB:

• As part of the investigation into the allegation, Robert’s cubicle was searched and a USB flash drive was found, forensically imaged and handled to you.
• You have the image file: flowergirl.img.
  MD5 of img file = 338ecf17b7fc85bbb2d5ae2bbc729dd5
• Your job is to analyze it. As you can see this assignment is about “investigating” a case. You have to think critically and evaluate the merits of different possibilities applying your knowledge what you have learned so far and going to learn in next two weeks. Please note there is no step of by step by direction. As you can see providing a direction will kill the investigation. However, I am happy to supervise this projects. So there is a Discussion Board forum, I enjoy seeing students develop their skills in critical thinking and the expression of their own ideas. Project work naturally leads into argument, whether that’s about the interpretation of data or the validity of a philosophical viewpoint. But remember this is Digital Forensics – we need clear evidence not just raw data.

YOUR REPORT:

You should answer the following questions:

1. What did you find on the flash drive (what files? In what condition?).
2. What actions did you take to analyze?
3. In your opinion, did he harass her or not? Explain why and how you arrived to this conclusion! What did he do?
4. Why was this case called “the flower girl”?

GRADING:

This assignment is worth up to 200 points towards your final grade. For this assignment clear rubrics is not provided intentionally. Since the overall goal of this project is investigating a case, a step by step rubrics will kill the investigation. However, you will be assessed on the methods of your analysis and how your analysis helped you to turn you finding into evidences. To earn the maximum number of points, you should try to address (not just answer) the following questions in your report:

• What did you find on the flash drive? A list of all files contained on the drive and their state and (deleted, not deleted, hidden). List everything including the volume.
• Explanation of the findings: What did you actually do to make the findings into an evidence? What actions did you take to analyze? For example: Finding ten bottles of Coke in one’s table is not enough to conclude that one had all of them. But if you taste the caffeine level in the blood, that might help to conclude.
• A time line of events. Extremely important – This will lead the investigation.
• A brief explanation of why the case was called “Flower Girl”? A list of names of people involved. You need to be very careful with this part. Just because you find word ” flower girl” somewhere in the image does not prove that it is related to your case. You need to make it an evidence.
• Your personal verdict on whether the suspect is guilty or not, and why. (This is the Fun part, just concluding the case. Remember you are stepping into the Administration of justice area and this is not a Forensic Analyst’s job) .
• Your analysis should not be more than 10-12 pages including the screen captures. Your analysis should be supported by appropriate screen captures! NO points will be given without appropriate screen capture of your analysis.
• All screen captures must accompany a date stamp. Inside the project report, if any screen capture is found without a date stamp, project won’t be graded.

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For this assignment, you were just hired as the Lead Security Manager (LSM) for this organization’s digital forensics department. Your department works closely with the federal government. The team you supervised consist of 30 people with diverse cultures and technical background. This team specializes in collecting digital evidence from crime scenes, extractions, and provide reports to be viewed by the United State Intelligence Community (IC). The IC is also the biggest client for your company. Without this account, your company will have a difficult time operating. Nevertheless, the IC has changed its requirements as it relates to clearance needed to handle evidence, and your company is out of compliance. Each member on your team, including yourself, must obtain at least a public trust clearance from the federal government. You also realize that these objectives need to be completed within 30 business days. Two of these objectives are:

1. Not all of the people on the team has the required clearance
2. Team member are using unreliable digital forensic tools to do their work

Assignment Requirements

1. Create a brief memo for your department introducing yourself, plans for the department, and your expectations from the team. Ideas from the required reading and presentations for the assignment module, as well as biblical integration, must all be integrated into the memo (At least – 1.5 Page)
2. Create a policy regarding the sensitivity of computer crimes, the use of incorrect tools to collect, and extract evidence (At least 2 pages, double space)

• Write a report to your boss about the analysis you have conducted on inappropriate tools you have discovered
  • Ensure to use your leadership skills to stress the impacts of using unreliable forensic tools
  • How these tools can jeopardize the forensic investigation process
  • Loss of funding
  • Allow criminals to get away from prosecution (3 Pages)

I’m working on a cyber security writing question and need guidance to help me learn.

Watch the Movie War Games from 1983. According to the New York Times, this movie had a tremendous effect on President Ronald Reagan.  Discuss in 500 words your opinion on whether it should be required viewing in social studies classes in high school. Do not repeat the story. Discuss it’s use in school.